Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...register and vote. Anti-Nixon enrollment drummers organizing rallies under such titles as "Countdown '72," "Register for a New America" and "Register for Peace" offer some interesting arithmetic. If only 50% of the young eligibles vote, and if they go 2-to-l Democratic, they could swing nine states, including vote-heavy California, New Jersey and Ohio, to give the Democratic candidate a substantial majority of 337 electoral votes. Of the under-21 voters already registered, variously estimated from 500,000 to 1,000,000, about 60% have enrolled as Democrats and 30% as Republicans...
...policy was attacked by both Chinas, since each claims to be the sole and rightful representative of all of China's people. But that did not deter the Administration. As President Nixon told reporters in the Oval Office after returning from a swing through Iowa and Ohio, China must be regarded not only as "the most populous nation in the world,* [but one] which potentially in the future could become the most powerful nation in the world...
...carrying all three crewmen again, fires itself out of lunar orbit, the ship is to leave behind another memento of Apollo 15's visit. With the press of a button, the small, instrument-packed subsatellite will be automatically injected into an orbit around the moon. The tiny package should swing around the moon for more than a year, radioing vital data about the lunar environment. Then Worden was scheduled to climb out-side the spacecraft, edge his way back to SIM and retrieve his valuable film in history's first "walk"' in deep space 200,000 miles from earth. Finally...
...Fendell's responsibility to control the moon rover's camera during the astronauts' lunar explorations. Sitting at his large, 15-button console in Houston, Fendell operated the RCA camera from a quarter of a million miles away. With a push of the appropriate button, he could swing it across the mountain-ringed horizon, raise it up to focus on a peak or lower it to peer down Hadley Rille. He could zoom in on the astronauts for a closeup or even adjust the lens opening to compensate for the moon's harsh lighting conditions...
...reminisced to Germany's Der Spiegel. Once Brecht saw Paula at her second-story window and struck up a conversation; when his neck got stiff from looking up, he simply lay down in the street and continued chatting. As for Brecht's boast that being on a swing was as beautiful as making love, Paula scoffs. She recalled that he regularly got sick on a swing. "He had trouble with his stomach," she says, "but it may have been his heart...